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 Kananga was previously known as Luluabourg or Luluaburg. It is the capital city of Lulua Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The estimated population of the city was about 1,130,100 in 2004. It is situated close to Lulua River, a tributary of the Kasai River and the Ilebo – Lubumbashi railway. It is a vital commercial and administrative center. It contains a museum and to Kananga Airport. A station was established in the area around present-day Kananga, on the left bank of the Lulua by a German explorer called Hermann Wissmann. He named the station Malandji. This name was suggested by his 400 carriers, who were from the city of Malanje in Angola. In the mean time after the construction of the railway on the other bank of the river, the station was transferred and the Lulua train station gave the city name Luluabourg. Previously the region was called Malandji-Makulu to this day.


In 1960, a decision was taken that the new state would move the location of its capital from Kinshasa to Kananga, due to the latter’s central location. But because of the multiple political setbacks, and especially the secession effort by Albert Kalonji and his South Kasai, this verdict was never put into practice. When the central government reconquered South Kasai in 1962, Luluabourg became the capital of the new Kasai-Occidental province.

In 1966, Leopoldville became Kinshasa, and Luluabourg became Kananga. Under the 2006 constitution, the Democratic republic of the Congo was divided in 25 provinces, and one national Capital city (Kinshasa). The Kasai-Occidental was separated into two provinces. Kananga became the capital of the Lulua Province. In the neighborhood, Kananga is known as Kananga-Malandji, or even Kananga-Malandji wa Nshinga. Nshinga, or cables, stands for the large high-voltage cables of the Inga-Shaba project, that cross the skies of Kananga, and that link Kolwezi and the southern Katanga Province (post-2006, the Lualaba Province) to the Inga Dam in Kongo Central.

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